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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a group of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from real events. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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